Visual Studio ALM VM 2015 Update 2

The VM and the accompanying hands-on-labs are now updated to Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 2. Please see below for the instructions on how to download the virtual machine and the hands-on-labs/demo scripts.

If you are downloading the VM, please see the note at the end of this post

For those who prefer not to download the virtual machine, the hands-on-labs are available on TechNet Virtual Labs - Select the lab ID from the table below to launch the VM simply from your preferred browser!

Sample users and data required to support hands-on-lab scripts accompanying the download

Using the virtual machine

There are quite a number of important instructions on how to use the VM including activating the VM, taking snapshots/check points, etc... documented in the “Working with the Visual Studio2015 ALM Virtual Machine.docx“. Please read through the document prior to using the VM, even if you may have used the earlier version of the VM. Please also see the note below at the end of the post

The VM has about 15 GB of free hard disk space. Should you want to increase the size of the disk you will need to do so before creating snapshots/check points. You can refer this article on TechNet for instructions on expanding the virtual hard disk.

Download and install Free download manager if you currently do not have one installed - We strongly recommend to download FDM V3 as the latest version does not support batch downloads at this point of time.

Note that when you try to import the VM in Hyper-V, you will hit an error that the 2012R2Eval.vhd does not exist in the WMIv2 folder. The VHD file is in the WMIV1\Virtual Hard Disks folder. Select the Use virtual hard disk option at the Connect Storage step and point to the VHD file in this folder. This is a known issue that we are working on.